By Kathy Hanks
The Hutchinson News 

Wallet found in piano after 70 years; returned to Hutchinson

 

January 13, 2017



HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A Hutchinson woman's wallet turned up years later in a dilapidated honky-tonk piano in Mexico.

But the real story is what was inside the black leather wallet ? a gift to Florence Holt in 1942 from her son Guy Holt Jr., who was serving in the Army Air Corps in Northern Africa that Christmas.

Perhaps because the wallet has been lost for about 70 years, grandson Tim Holt is holding tight to this family treasure.

In 1979 Henry Martens, a German Mennonite from Chihuahua, Mexico, was in the Arlington area with a friend who was buying machinery. He noticed an upright piano in...



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